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. >> hear tees dean of the disgusting, reporter russ ptacek. >> reporter: our first story started when one of my facebook followers wrote me complaining about a mouse and a roach. and people who didn't seem to care at a 7-eleven. i told her to call the health department. they shut it down. >> i've been coming here for 10 years now. >> reporter: this customer was angry, too, because clerks at the south capitol street 7- eleven weren't absing questions. >> can i see that? >> reporter: this clerk wouldn't stop moving that city card when i asked to see if he is certified ?roo. when you're playing with a card like this, i can't see the expiration date, i can't see your name. >> reporter: inspectors reported rodent droppings on the floor and hot dorks hamburgers, and chicken wings at unsafe temperatures. around back, they cited a rat running under a pallet, and at the nacho display, a live roach. >> you've got to be serious here. you cook food, you be serious. people eat this stuff. >> reporter: we didn't get answers. >> we're actually looking for the store manager. >> reporter: they weren't
. >> hear tees dean of the disgusting, reporter russ ptacek. >> reporter: our first story started when one of my facebook followers wrote me complaining about a mouse and a roach. and people who didn't seem to care at a 7-eleven. i told her to call the health department. they shut it down. >> i've been coming here for 10 years now. >> reporter: this customer was angry, too, because clerks at the south capitol street 7- eleven weren't absing questions. >> can i see...
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. >>> it is thursday night and russ ptacek food alert is on the menu. tonight a smorg as board of -- smorgasboard of good intentions. >>> tonight there is new hope >>> for some really good news in tonight's health alert, the overall cancer death rate has dropped a lot in the last few decades. the nern cancer society says it's down 20% from its peak in 1991. . >>> put down the late night left over. it is time for tonight's food alert. joints is the right word for what russ ptacek found out there. >> reporter: no hot water but with a twist. restaurants operating with no running water at all. just until you see something that looks exactly like it on the floor. it could be an exotic spice. but keep on looking a couple aisles over, you may just find the real thing. at hot and juicy crawfish on connecticut avenue, customers had no idea that closures were for 10 violations. >> that's bad. >> reporter: what did you have? >> crawfish. >> reporter: inspectors say they were operating with no hot water and no food safety manager. >> oh, my god. i'm going to vomit.
. >>> it is thursday night and russ ptacek food alert is on the menu. tonight a smorg as board of -- smorgasboard of good intentions. >>> tonight there is new hope >>> for some really good news in tonight's health alert, the overall cancer death rate has dropped a lot in the last few decades. the nern cancer society says it's down 20% from its peak in 1991. . >>> put down the late night left over. it is time for tonight's food alert. joints is the right word...
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i'm russ ptacek from channel 9. we've been waiting nearly an hour. he acted like he didn't know there had been a health department closure. he asked us to wait for an owner. we did but -- >> you guys don't have the right to go in my kitchen. >> reporter: that's what i'm asking. we want to see if it's clean. >> i'm not letting you. >> reporter: in chinatown inspectors cited new big wong on h street northwest for mice droppings and 12 other violations including contamination control, dirty floors and equipment, food and unsafe temperatures and dirty fish tanks in the dining room and kitchen. >> i was surprised because the food tastes so good. >> reporter: the manager doesn't want to talk to us and won't allow us in the kitchen to see if they cleaned up. at the southwest waterfront fish market inspectors closed pruitt's seafood. they'd reopened and when we arrived, customers were lining up to buy from fish to oysters unaware of that recent suspension for five violations and another closure two years ago for 32. >> hopefully your news story, you're pulli
i'm russ ptacek from channel 9. we've been waiting nearly an hour. he acted like he didn't know there had been a health department closure. he asked us to wait for an owner. we did but -- >> you guys don't have the right to go in my kitchen. >> reporter: that's what i'm asking. we want to see if it's clean. >> i'm not letting you. >> reporter: in chinatown inspectors cited new big wong on h street northwest for mice droppings and 12 other violations including...
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we got russ ptacek. >> reporter: if you think the only good rat is a dead rat, tonight we do have one good rat but we've got bad rats, too, and they are all caught on tape. >> they got closed for sanitation problems. >> okay. see ya. >> reporter: that's one drive- through customer gone at dunkin' donuts in takoma park. the health department says this dumpster is where part of the problem was. okay, yeah. take a look. at least that one is dead. besides the rat, we found behind the restaurant, inspectors cited dunkin' donuts for rodent poisoning at the base of their doughnut case alongside mouse droppings. the franchise owner declined to allow our cameras to see their kitchen. dunkin' donuts issued a statement saying franchisees are required to attend training courses on proper health and that it immediately sent a certified operation manager to ensure all appropriate dunkin' donuts food safety guidelines are being followed. officials also inspect the warehouses where restaurants get their food. they suspended sam wang produce for hand washing violations, no one certified in food safety
we got russ ptacek. >> reporter: if you think the only good rat is a dead rat, tonight we do have one good rat but we've got bad rats, too, and they are all caught on tape. >> they got closed for sanitation problems. >> okay. see ya. >> reporter: that's one drive- through customer gone at dunkin' donuts in takoma park. the health department says this dumpster is where part of the problem was. okay, yeah. take a look. at least that one is dead. besides the rat, we found...
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. >>> coming up in tonight's food alert russ ptacek finding a spice that looks a bit like rat droppings. >> and right around the corner some real rat droppings, a store owner said it fell off a piece of equipment, not my fault. >> also ahead the future of shopping, how retailers want to make your phone or tablet part of your in-store experience. >> i'll have the story about a boy who was killed by a soccer goal falling on him and what his parents are now doing to try to make sure it doesn't at honda, we know some people are never happy with the way things are. and are always dreaming of how they could be. smarter, simpler, how-on-earth-does-it-do-that... er. and they make it that way. because things can always be better. we like those people. they think like us. introducing the best civic sedan yet. made possible by honda. >>> five years after 10-year- old hayden elliott of virginia died when a soccer goal fell on him the legislature may finally pass new safety measures. his parents are behind this and they're calling it hayden's goal. peggy fox is here with more on this family's courag
. >>> coming up in tonight's food alert russ ptacek finding a spice that looks a bit like rat droppings. >> and right around the corner some real rat droppings, a store owner said it fell off a piece of equipment, not my fault. >> also ahead the future of shopping, how retailers want to make your phone or tablet part of your in-store experience. >> i'll have the story about a boy who was killed by a soccer goal falling on him and what his parents are now doing to try...
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here's investigative reporter russ ptacek with the latest photo evidence. >> reporter: these photos show filthy conditions, photos that may turn your stomach. i'll give you a warning. i'll give you a chance to close your eyes for a moment right before we show you a shot of a floor covered with rodent droppings. it's where rats ran out in front of us under the dock. >> i just saw two rats. >> reporter: now 20 now photos obtained under the freedom of information act show us inside for the first time. this is what inspectors saw the day a city council member intervened defending the rodent plagued warehouse and delaying inspectors from closing it down. inspectors cited violations for no soap at the hand washing sink and raw eggs stored above green peppers creating a cross contamination risk because those vegetables might never be cooked. photos show pools of water, food debris and moisture in the walk-in refrigerator and wet wood pallets on the floor. this is where you may want to look away for a moment. inspectors cited and photographed rodent droppings on the floor and inside cartons empt
here's investigative reporter russ ptacek with the latest photo evidence. >> reporter: these photos show filthy conditions, photos that may turn your stomach. i'll give you a warning. i'll give you a chance to close your eyes for a moment right before we show you a shot of a floor covered with rodent droppings. it's where rats ran out in front of us under the dock. >> i just saw two rats. >> reporter: now 20 now photos obtained under the freedom of information act show us...
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also tonight russ ptacek is back with your first food alert of the new year. don't forget log on any time to www.wusa9.com. have a great evening. we'll see you a bit later. bye bye. turkey sausage. turkey what? amazing. dunkin's new turkey sausage breakfast sandwich. surprisingly great sausage taste with under 400 calories. try one today. america runs on dunkin'. >>> "dancing with the stars" julianne hough admits to being a victim of physical abuse. >> i think a lot of people got to know me through "dancing with the stars and don't really know about my past. >> who took advantage of julianne when she was a 10-year-old child. and the break down on the set of her new movie. >> a candid confession she kept secret until tonight. >>> pregnant kim's police escort from the gym. new video today and will she pose nude. >> plus, what e.t. knows about the baby shower and the god parents. >> tell me you and kanye well pick a famous god parent for this baby. >>> and j. lo's photo shoot posing on a palace and sexy on the beach.
also tonight russ ptacek is back with your first food alert of the new year. don't forget log on any time to www.wusa9.com. have a great evening. we'll see you a bit later. bye bye. turkey sausage. turkey what? amazing. dunkin's new turkey sausage breakfast sandwich. surprisingly great sausage taste with under 400 calories. try one today. america runs on dunkin'. >>> "dancing with the stars" julianne hough admits to being a victim of physical abuse. >> i think a lot of...